Lucie Chan: To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear
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Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 205-268 Keefer Street (Sun Wah Centre), Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1X5
Lucie Chan, "To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear (detail)," 2018
mixed media installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 1 – 3 PM
Join Henry Heng Lu, Curator of Centre A, for a curatorial tour of our two current exhibitions:
Lam Wong: the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition
Lucie Chan: To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear
Free for Members / Pay-what-you-can for Non-Members No registration is required.
Lam Wong will be in attendance.
Guyana-born Lucie Chan makes multi-layered drawing installations that often include animations and works produced with voluntary participants to discover potentially connected cross-cultural narratives between seemingly disparate lives. ‘To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear’ is comprised of a wide range of materials such as candy, text-based drawings, a racist ad from the 1950’s, and found objects. The exhibition uses several seemingly disparate historical and current-day elements, and reflects Chan’s layered inquiry imagining what it would be like when in public to be not either hated or feared. The title of the exhibition ‘To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear,’ stems from this question, and is also a nod to Adrian Piper’s The Mythic Being: I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear (1975).
Lucie Chan has participated in duo and group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Carleton University Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, TRUCK Contemporary Art, among others. Her work has also been featured in solo exhibitions at such venues as the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the MAI (Montréal Arts Interculturels), Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Line Gallery, and most recently Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. She was also long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2006 and 2010. She has completed residencies across Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy, but spends most of her time making art on the Coast Salish territories of BC, where she also lives and works. Her recent practice involves one on one interviews with strangers in order to gain insight into themes around personal struggles, misunderstandings, and wrongful accusations in the public realm.
Curated by Henry Heng Lu
Saturday, February 29, 2020, 1 – 4 PM
In tandem with her exhibition To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear at Centre A, Lucie Chan will give a public talk at the gallery on Saturday, February 29 from 1 to 2 PM, followed by a storytelling workshop from 2 to 4 PM.